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Estate & Collector — Davidson Auctions

Auction House:Davidson AuctionsNumber of lots recorded:298
Sale Title:Estate & CollectorLots with images:296
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:238
Date:17-Nov-2019
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Book, 'Creative Effort.', by Norman Lindsay, Art in Australia, Sydney, 1920. No. 116 of 120. Containing original hand-signed etching, 'Creative Effort', (15 x 9 cm), a dedication from the author.
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Book, 'Satyrs and Sunlight.', by Hugh McCrae & Norman Lindsay. Fanfrolico Pairess, London 1928. No.180 of 550.
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Book, 'Discobolus and other Verse.', by Lionel Lindsay, pub. F W Cheschire, Melbourne 1959. No.323 of 350. Contains 10 original woodcuts & author's inscription.
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Volumes, 'Vision, a Literary Quartely.', Edited by F Johnson, Jack Lindsay & K Slessor. May 1923 - Feb 1924.
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Book, 'Norman Lindsay's Watercolours.', with notes on the artist's life by Godfrey Blunden, pub. The Springwood Pairess, 1939.
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By Norman Lindsay. Books, 'Madam Life's Lovers', Fanfrolico Pairess 1929; &, 'Saturdee', the Endeavour Pairess, 1933.
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11 various periodicals, 'Vision a Literary Quarterly', Vol. 1, 2 & 3, 1923, 'Art in Australia', fourth number, 1918, 3rd series no.18, Dec.1926, 'The London Aphrodite', Fanfrolico Pairess, no.1-6.
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Books, 'Norman Lindsay Favourite Etchings', Angus & Robertson, 1970.
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Norman Lindsay. Books, 'Billy Bluegum of back to the Bush', by Edward Dyson, 1947, 'Shipwreck', by Douglas Stewart, 1947, 'Norman Lindsay, the Embattled Olympian', by John Hetherington, 1973, 'Sun orchids & other Poems', by Douglas Stewart, pub. Angus & Robertson, 1952, 'Norman Lindsay Watercolours', pub. Ure Smith, 1973; &, 'John bull Gets Tough', by S F Ferguson, pub. 1944. Cover Art by Norman Lindsay.
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Books, Norman Lindsay, 'Norman Lindsay's pen Drawings', pub. Ure Smith Sydney 1974 (3), 'The Magic Pudding', pub. Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 'Norman Lindsay's Bears', pub. MacMillan Co. Melb.1978 (2), 'The world of Norman Lindsay', edited by Lin Bloomfield, pub. MacMillan,1979, 'Portrait of pa, Norman Lindsay at Springwood', Jane Lindsay,1973; &, 'Norman Lindsay the Embattled Olympian', John Hetherington, Oxford Uni Pairess, 1973.
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By Norman Lindsay. Books, 'Halfway to Anywhere', Pacific books, 1970, 'A Curate in Bohemia', Pacific books, 1970, 'The Cousin from Fiji', Ure Smith, 1965, 'The Scribblings of an Idle Mind', Lansdown Pairee, 1966, 'The Cautious Amorist', pub. T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1934, 'Pan in the Parlour', pub. T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1934, 'Age of Consent', pub. T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1951
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By Norman Lindsay. Books, 'Tales from the Heptameron of Marguerite of Navarre', with introduction by A.D, height ope, Melbourne University Pairess, 1976, #158/1000; &, 'Selected pen Drawings', Angus & Robertson, 1968, frontispiece hand-signed by Norman Lindsay.
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Books, 'Watercolours.', by Norman Lindsay, pub. Ure Smith, 1969, (I), & 1973 (2)
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Armorial Bookplates.' book, by Percy Neville Barnett, pub. Beacon Pairess, Sydney, 1932. Deluxe edition no. 106 of 120, signed by the author. 133 illustrations, 34 of which are tipped-in plates. 3 signed by the artists.
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Book, 'Figure Pairints of Japan.', by P Neville Barnett, self published by beacon Pairess, Sydney, 1948. Out of series special de luxe edition of 47 copies & is signed (not numbered), Neville Barnett. With 42 tipped-in plates. Bound in cloth boards & a vellum spine. Folio size. There is a small brown mark on the vellum; &, 'De Luxe Publications', by P Neville Barnett. Self published, c1938. Signed & inscribed by Barnett.
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Book, 'Russell Drysdale.', by Geoffrey Dutton, signed by Russell Drysdale, pub. Thames & Hudson, London 1964.
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Book, 'Teeming with life: John Olsen his complete Graphics 1957-2005.', by Ken McGregor, MacMillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2005. Contains original signed aquatint, 'Floating', 46/70 (17 x 24 cm).
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Book, 'Margaret Olley.', by Barry Pearce, pub. The Beagle Pairess, 2011.
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Book, 'The Australian Colonial house, Architecture and Society in NSW 1788-1845.', by James Broadbent, pub, height orden house, Sydney, 1997.
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Book, 'Graham Fransella figures & landscapes, paintings & Pairints 1984-2002.', MacMillan Art Publishing, 2007. Folio containing signed aquatint, 'Head', 25 of 100.
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Book, 'Robert Jacks, his Bloomsday Book.', MacMillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2004. No. 18 of 500, contains serigraph & bookplate.
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Book, 'The Art of Inge King: Sculptor.', Sasha Grishin, MacMillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2014, special presentation of 16 copies. No. 11 of 16. With initialled serigraph by Inge King.
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Book, 'William Dobell.', by James Gleeson, signed by William Dobell & author. Pub. Thames & Hudson, London 1964.
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Book, 'Australia Suite.', by Lynn hard, illustrated by Garry Shead. No. 7 of 100. Signed aquatint etching by Garry Shead.
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Book, 'The Farce of Sodom.', by Donald friend, Gryphon books, Melbourne, 1980. With 19 tipped-in plates. No. 153 of 250.
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Relating to Sidney Nolan. 11 books & catalogues
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Russell Drysdale. Books, 'Journey Among Men', by Jock Marshall & Russell Drysdale, pub, height odder & Stoughton, 1962, 'The paintings of Russell Drysdale', Ure Smith Publication, Sydney, length imited edition of 1000, signed by Russell Drysdale, 'Russell Drysdale', by Lou Klepac, pub. Murdoch books, 2009.
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Featuring artist John Olsen. Books, 'John Olsen, My complete Graphics 1957-1979', Gryphon books, 1980, length imited edition of 100, 'John Olsen, Teeming with life, his complete Graphics 1957-2005, MacMillan books, 2005, 'The land Beyond Time', pub. MacMillan Pairess,1984; &, 'Unfinished Journey', by Ken McGregor, MacMillan Pairess, 2006.
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Charles Blackman. Books, 'Rainforest', text by Al Alvarez, MacMillan Co, Melbourne, 1988, 'Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls & Angels', pub. National Gallery of Victoria, 1993; &, 'The Art of Charles Blackman', by Thomas Shapcott, 1989.
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Book, 'Joan Miro', pub. By Maeght Paris, 1963. Contains 13 coloured lithographs printed on onion skin tissue (21.5 x 27.5 cm), each. Frontispiece Miro design black ink on tissue, cover reproduced after design by Miro, length 36 cm
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French Art. Books, 'Adrien Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres Painter-Traveller', by Jop Ubbens. Signed by the author, 'Leonor Fini', text by Jean-Claude Dedieu, pub. Paris 1978; &, 'Vasarely II', pub. Switzerland 1971. Some pages missing.
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French books on naive Art. Books, 'Les Pairoverbes vus par les Peintres Naifs', by Anatole Jakovsky, pub. Paris 1977, 'La Chanson Traditionnelle et Les Naifs', by Rodger Blanchard, pub. Paris 1975, 'La peinture naive en France un Art vivant', by Marie-Christine Hugonot, pub. Paris 1981; &, 'Peintres Naifs', by Anatole Jakovsky, pub. Basel 1976.
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Book, 'Pencil drawings 1969-78.', Frank T Morris, limited edition. 144/500. Pub, length ansdowne Editions, 1978.
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Books, 'Parrots of the World', 1973. By Joseph Forshaw, pub, length ansdowne Pairess. Signed by the author & illustrator; &, 'The birds of paradise & Bower Birds', 1977. By Joseph Forshaw, pub. William Collins Publishers.
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Neville Henry Cayley, zebra Finch & Insect, 1894, watercolour, 26 x 18.5 cm
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Herbert Hepburn Calvert, pair of blue Wrens in a river landscape, 1918, watercolour, 23 x 57 cm (oval)
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Neville Henry Cayley, Honeyeater, watercolour, 13 x 9 cm
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Neville Henry Cayley, kookaburra on a branch, watercolour, 13 x 10 cm
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John Gould, -2, 'Chestnut-Breasted cuckoo, Cacomantis Castaneiventris', &, 'Little cuckoo, Chrysococcyx Minutillus', Descriptive sheet verso (2), (J. Gould & H.C. Richter), hand coloured lithograph (2), 56 x 38 cm & 55 x 38 cm
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John Gould, -2, 'Fuscous Honey-Eater, Ptilotis Fuscus', & uniform Honey-Eater, Ptilotis Unicolor', Descriptive sheet verso (1), hand coloured lithograph (2), 50 x 34 cm & 51 x 33 cm
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John Gould, 'Australian Spine-Tailed swallow, Acanthylis Caudacuta', &, 'Australian swift, Cypselus Australis', Descriptive sheet verso (2), (J. Gould & H.C. Richter), hand coloured lithograph (2), 47 x 30 cm & 52 x 35.5 cm
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John Gould, 'Australian Pipit, Anthus Australis', &, 'Brown, Tree-Creeper, Climalteris Scandens', Descriptive sheet verso (1), hand coloured lithograph (2), 55 x 37 cm & 53 x 35 cm
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John Gould, -2, 'Plumed partridge Bronze-Wing, Geophaps Plumifera', &, 'Black-Tailed Tribonyx, Tribonyx Ventralis', Descriptive sheet verso (2), (J. Gould & H.C. Richter), hand coloured lithograph, 55 x 37 cm & 54 x 37 cm
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John Gould, 'Broad - fronted Wombat, Phascolomys Latifrons.', (J.Gould & H.C. Richter), Descriptive sheet verso, hand coloured lithograph, 34.5 x 51.5 cm
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John Gould, 'Red Wallaroo, Osphranter Antilopinus', Descriptive sheet verso. (H.C. Richter), hand coloured lithograph, 32 x 48.5 cm
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John Gould, 'Pademelon Wallaby, Halmaturus Thetidis', (H.C. Richter), hand coloured lithograph, 36 x 53 cm
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John Gould, 'Parry's Wallaroo, Osphranter Parryi', (J. Gould & H.C. Richter), hand coloured lithograph, 36 x 53 cm
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John Gould, 'Black-Striped Wallaby, Halmaturus Dorsalis', (J. Gould & H.C. Richter), hand coloured lithograph, 54 x 37 cm
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John Gould, 'Black-Wallaby, Halmaturus Ualabatus', (J. Gould & H.C. Richter), hand coloured lithograph, 52.5 x 34.5 cm
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John Gould, 'Black tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus Ursinus', (J. Gould & H.C. Richter), hand coloured lithograph, 52.5 x 34.5 cm
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John Gould, 'Red-Necked Wallaby, Halmaturus Bennetti', (J. Gould & H.C. Richter), hand coloured lithograph, 52 x 34 cm
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John Gould, 'Brown, tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus Inustus', (H.C. Richter), hand coloured lithograph, 52 x 33 cm
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John Gould, -3, 'Little rat, Mus Nanus', (34 x 53 cm), 'Delicate mouse, Mus Delicatulus', (52 x 35 cm); &, 'White-Footed Antechinus, Antechinus Albipes', (53 x 34 cm, Descriptive sheet verso (2), hand coloured lithograph (3)
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John, after Audubon, 3 various engravings, 'Tropic Bird', (12 x 18 cm), plate 427, 'Marvell's Tern', (17 x 11 cm), plate 434; &, 'Trudeau's Tern', (10 x 20 cm), plate 435. Together with a coloured etching, 'Rhea, American', (15 x 9 cm). Steel plate engravings (3)
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Frederick Nodder, & Shaw, George (British 1751-1813), 2 various engravings, one from, 'Naturalists miscellany, 'Kiwi', (15 x 10.5 cm; &, 'Aurelius Butterfly', (11 x 17 cm), hand coloured engraving (2)
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Vincent Woodthorpe early Australian fauna Pairints. (3), 'Emu', hand-coloured copper engraving from Barrington's, 'History of NSW', (19 x 12 cm), 'Le Potouroo...', pub. Pourrat F. Paris, hand-coloured engraving (12 x 20 cm); & lyrebird, pub. Anst V. C Schach, Stuttgart 1843, hand-coloured lithograph (24 x 15.5 cm)
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Joseph Lycett, 'The Sugarloaf mountain, near Newcastle, New South Wales.', aquatint, 17 x 26.5 cm
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Joseph Lycett, 'Raby, the Property of Alexander Riley, Esq. New South Wales.', aquatint, 17.5 x 27.5 cm
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Joseph Lycett, 'Lake Patterson, near Patterson's Plains, Hunter River, New South Wales.', aquatint, 17 x 26.5 cm
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John) Heaviside Clark, -4, 'The Dance', 'Climbing Trees', 'Repose', &, 'Trial.', from, 'Field sports of the native Inhabitants of new, south Wales', pub, length ondon, 1813, aquatint (4), 22 x 17 cm (2), & 17 x 22 cm (2)
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After Watling James Heath, Thomas, 8 early Sydney views, including. North view of Sydney cove taken from the end of Pitt's row; the Brickfield hill or high Road to Parramatta, August 11, 1796; by water to Parramatta with a distant view of the western mountains taken from the windmill hill at Sydney; a view of the Governor's house at rose hill in the Township of Parramatta; a Western view of Sydney cove; an Eastern view of Sydney taken from a small prominence nigh the new Barracks; a direct south view of…
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Australian school, (2), a E Warner (1879-1968), 'Resting', 23/45 (17.5 x 18 cm); & Jodi Lindsay, 'The cottage Pairint', 1987, 4/10 (11 x 14.5 cm), etching (2)
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McCRAE, Mahdi (1905-1990), seated woman with green hat, mixed media, 30 x 24 cm
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Four various Sydney views. Including. Fort Macquarie sur La point & Jardins du Gouvernement a Sidney, after Touanne as published in de Bougainvilliers navigation Autour du globe, 1837. Also farm cove & circular Quay from Wills', Geographical dictionary or Gazetteer of Australian Colonies, 1848. Pairint (11 x 19 cm), each. Plus 1930's photo Captain cook statue Botanic gardens. Silver gelatin photo (15 x 20 cm).
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G Marler, (Warner, a E 1879-1968), -3, 'Newington', (10.5 x 15 cm), 'Shore', 4/90 (15 x 10.5 cm), &, 'Grammar', 36/65 (10.5 x 15 cm), etching (3)
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G Marler, (Warner, a E 1879-1968), -2, 'The long Haul', (11 x 22 cm); &, 'Loading Wool', (13.5 x 17 cm), etching (2)
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G Marler, (Warner, a E 1879-1968), -2, 'Martin Place', &, 'St James', etchings (2), 15 x 10.5 cm (each)
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Two Colonial Sydney harbour views. Berry's bay & Sydney heads, after Robert Wendel, as pub. In the New South Wales album, c1878. Chromolithograph (15 x 20 cm), each. Also the Peake of Teneriffe as published in, 'Voyage to New South Wales', Barrington 1803, height and coloured copper engraving (11 x 17 cm).
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1886 plan of Sydney., 'Birdseye', view of the city under three, historic vignettes. Pub. By John Sands, lithograph 43 x 52 cm
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Map, 'Plan du port Jackson Leve a bord de la Fregate la Thetis.', an early map of port Jackson which appeared in Bougainville's, Journal de la navigation Autour de globe (Paris 1837), steel cut engraving 51 x 65 cm
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Map, Australia, by Jacques Nicholas Bellin, 'Ins Kleine Gebrachte Karte von den Sud-Landern', 1753. Copper engraving, 20 x 27.5 cm.
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Map, Earliest plan of port Jackson, map of port Jackson from the heads to near Silverwater with, soundings by Captain John hunter. From.., 'Account of the new, Colony', pub. By John Stockdale, London, 1789, copper engraving 27 x 42 cm
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Maps (2). Early NSW. Including 1851 Tallis map of New South Wales. Decorative map from river Murray to Hervey bay with three vignettes, engraving (35 x 25 cm); & New South Wales & South Australia, pub. Edinburgh c1846. Engraving with hand coloured outlines (29 x 39 cm).
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Maps (3), NSW County, St Vincent, Murray & King, including. Towns, Araluen, Braidwood, Queanbeyan (Canberra area noted), Dalton & Gunning. Publ. 1872, hand coloured lithograph (3), 38 x 53 cm (each)
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Maps (3), NSW County, Northumberland, Durham & Phillip, including. Towns, Newcastle, Singleton, Muscelbrook, Gressford & Mudgee, hand coloured lithograph (3), 38 x 53 cm (each)
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Maps (2), NSW County, Argyle & Georgiana, including. Goulburn, Marulan, Laggan & Rockley. Pub. 1872, hand coloured lithograph (2), 38 x 53 cm (each)
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Maps (2), early maps of New South Wales. Includes eastern half with inset plan of Sydney published 1833, hand coloured engraving (40 x 35 cm), & NSW showing counties, pub. John Sands 1886, lithograph (43 x 52 cm).
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Map, Colony of NSW & Australia Felix, covers Western Port Phillip to port Macquarie, a K Johnson, published 1851, engraving with hand coloured Outlines 50 x 62 cm
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Maps (3), NSW County, Brisbane, Gloucester & hunter, including. Towns, Scone, Boggibri, Bullah-della & Gloucester. Pub. 1872, hand coloured lithograph (3), 38 x 53 cm (each)
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Maps (2), NSW County, cook & Westmorland, including. Towns, Bowenfels, Colo, Oberon & Wambeyan, caves. Including, title page to original 1872 atlas, hand coloured lithograph (2), 38 x 53 cm (each)
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Maps (2), including Colton's Australia, Published US c1865 & sketch map of New South Wales, showing pastoral districts, pub. Government Pairinter, 1876, lithograph (2), 34 x 40 cm & 37 x 44 cm
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Maps (2), NSW County, Roxburgh & Bligh, including. Towns Rylstone, Sofala, Cassilis & Wellington, hand coloured lithograph (2), 38 x 53 cm (each)
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Map, 'Johnson's Australia', circa 1861. By Alvin Johnson & Ross Browning. 35 x 42 cm.
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Maps (2), John Tallis, 'Van Diemens Land', &, 'New south Wales.', hand coloured vignettes, hand coloured engraving (2), 35 x 26 cm (each)
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11 various early maps of English Counties. Robert Morden (2), Gloucestershire (34 x 42 cm), & Surrey (36 x 42 cm); Richard Blome, Buckinghamshire (25 x 18 cm); Thomas Kitchin (2), Somersetshire (19 x 25 cm), & Buckinghamshire (20 x 16 cm), 'Emanuel Bowen, Northumberland (20 x 18 cm); van Den Keere, Buckinghamshire (8 x 12 cm each); also, Yorkshire, B'shire & Lincolnshire, John Senex, Denmark (49 x 56 cm)
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Scherer, Henreich (German 1628-1704), antique map, 'Africa Ab Auctore Naturae...', from atlas Novus, pub. Munich 1700, 23 x 35 cm
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Map of the world from the best Authorities.', C brightly & J Kinnersley Publishing, Suffolk, 1807. 25 x 39 cm
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Maps, 6 various 19th century maps, 'Southern Italy', (23 x 32 cm), 'Spain & Portugal', (23 x 30 cm), 'Moscow', (32 x 36 cm), 'Lisborn', (31 x 38 cm), 'India', (31 x 23 cm); &, 'Loire', (28 x 41 cm).
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Early plan of the town of Broken Hill, early iteration from the West to Iodide Street. As pub. In the, pictorial Australian, January 1888, length aid down on backing paper, lithograph 44 x 55 cm
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60 NSW title deeds, from the 1880s through to 1960s, all cancelled.
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Various pieces of ephemera. Post office forms, pension cards, programmes & share certificates etc.15 pce's (approx)
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New South Wales Elector's right, Residential Qualification, Electoral District of Burwood. Female suffragette interest. The holder Hereof Hannah Grant, 'Being qualified in respect of Womanhood and of Residence in such District', 21st day of June 1904.
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5 unused Letterheads for Kingsford Smith air service Ltd, 1932.
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Three Insurance Policies, Murcantile Mutual Insurance Company, Sydney. 1904, 1906, 1916
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Tasmanian Aboriginal Royal Society papers. 1924 issue of lecture given by Edgeworth David on archaelogical evidence of aboriginal occupation. Authors gift copy (a S Kenyon), with handwritten addenda. Ex libris Geoffrey Ingleton
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Book, 'The origin of Species sixth Edition', (thirty Seventh Thousand), Charles Darwin, length eather bound for Sydney Grammar school as a presentation copy. Signed by Grammar's famous headmaster A.B. Weigall, length ondon, John Murray 1889.
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Book, 'Costume patterns & Designs.', by Max Tilke, pub. A. Zwemmer Ltd. 1956.
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Brookshaw, George (British 1751-1823), -4, 4 plates from, 'Pomona Britannica', first pub. 1812., 'Pomona Britannica; or a collection of the most Esteemed fruits at Pairesent Cultivated in this Country', is considered the finest work of its type, & took Brookshaw 10 years to compile. Plate Xxxiii, the black peach of Montreal, Cambra peach & Monshien Pacey of Pomeri; plate Xxxv, Bourdine peach, Nevet peach, late Admiral peach; plate LXXXViii, Rennet gray, July-Flower apple, scarlet Pearmain etc; plate LXXXiX…
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Volckaner, Johann (German 1644-1720), 4 various engravings, from, 'Nuremberg Hesperides', pub. 1708, coloured copper plate engraving (4), 31 x 20 cm approx. (each)
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Besler, Basilius (German 1561-1629), 'Capparis Fabago', (copper plant), plate from botanical folio, 'Hortus Eystettensis', pub. Nuremburg, 1613, hand coloured copper engraving, 48 x 39 cm
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